Johannesburg Stock Exchange: Business Architect Vacancies

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Business Architect builds the enterprise blueprint through the definition of enterprise processes at the logical level, their relationships to all external entities and other enterprise value streams, and the events that trigger instantiation. It is a definition of what the enterprise must produce to satisfy its customers and compete in a market. Business Architect describes the business strategy, models, processes, services and organizational structure and provides the foundation upon which business architecture roles and partially other enterprise architecture roles base their decisions.

Responsibilities / Outputs

Understand business strategy and perform business strategy impact analysis on enterprise business blueprint

Liaise with business stakeholders and understand their vision and needs in each of the divisions

Derive business direction by combining top-down and bottom-up needs analysis

Developing the baseline and target architectures using the following deliverables:

Defining business process from conceptual to physical level

Document the organization structure, identifying business locations and relating them to organizational units

Identify and define business functions This is a detailed, recursive step involving successive decomposition of major functional areas into sub-functions

Define the services that each enterprise unit provides to its customers, both internally and externally

Perform gap analysis and identify the initiatives between the current and future state

Develop the guidance necessary to flexibly evolve and optimize the business dimensions (people, process, technology) to achieve the enterprise change

Collaborates with business analysts and bridging the gap between project specific requirements and models and the enterprise requirements and models ensuring alignment to the target architecture

Collaborate with Business Integration Managers and business analysts in developing the business models for the target and project initiatives

Partnering with IT and business leaders, communicate and provide leadership and direction with respect to how the enterprise architecture supports the business strategies

Collaborates with business analysts and bridging the gap between project specific requirements and models and the enterprise requirements and models ensuring alignment to the target architecture

Collaborate with Business Integration Managers and business analysts in developing the business models for the target and project initiatives with the business architects

Partnering with IT and business leaders, communicate and provide leadership and direction with respect to how the enterprise architecture supports the business strategies

Foster a broad understanding of technologies relevant to JSE business strategies

Understand in detail the relationships between products/services and the architecture of them

Work collaboratively with the infrastructure areas of IT to: Develop business focused requirements for the technical architecture, evaluate alternative technologies and recommend appropriate solutions that fit the enterprise architecture

Collaborate to establish and communicate processes for updating the enterprise architecture (e.g. adding and eliminating technologies, applications, data stores, etc) and for handling exceptions to the architecture

Developing the clear traceability of the architectural decisions to the elements of the business strategy